In Hiroshima, the city that emerges from the great tragedy, there are places of remembrance of victims of the atomic bomb attack in 1945. The most widely recognized international symbol of the disaster is the Dome of Genbaku, stand the remains of a building constructed for the Exhibition of Hiroshima in 1915.
Incredibly, being only 150 meters away from where the bomb exploded, the building, with serious damage, resisted up to the debacle, and as it was, was preserved until today. The dilapidated building dramatically, was preserved as a testament to the destruction that can cause a nuclear attack, and at the same time, as a painful symbol capable of promoting world peace.
The building with the dome Genbaku, is part of a larger park that includes other monuments: the Peace Memorial Park. In the area, are distributed commemorative statues, a memorial from the ashes of thousands of victims, a Flame of Peace, ON steadily unless a nuclear debacle ends with life on Earth, and even an entire museum dedicated to r
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